Sentence examples for to be ingenuous from inspiring English sources

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing".

It being Mrs. Pitre's turn to be ingenuous, she proposed that they enlist the aid of a taxi-driver who lived in an apartment above hers and with whom she was on better than friendly terms.

They seem to be "innocent" and are sung "in the most ingenuous way".

On the other hand, it would be ingenuous to think that nothing at all is at risk when budgets shrink and productions de-corporatize.

They are forever employing phrases that may be ingenuous — or may be canny and ugly.

Ms. George muses on love, yearning and separation in lyrics that can be ingenuous or surreal: "I'm breaking up our house for firewood".

That the opposite gender's (or the same, if that's your thing) desire to sex you up is directly related to the amount of power you have is a fact as old as time itself, and for Flynn to play dumb is ingenuous.

But you are ingenuous to believe that the Supreme Court might correct this error, because, in fact, the justices have encouraged this very response.

Hackers are ingenuous at finding ways to hack your mobile phone number, which usually protects your SMS 2FA.

Suu Kyi's attempts to spin the violence against the Rohingya is ingenuous, at best.

Baby Lutchman is ingenuous, trusting, even gullible; she's also remarkable at appearing to doggedly move on from her many setbacks, rather than rehearsing consecutive fantasies, as her husband did.